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  • STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL
    STONE YARD DEVOTIONAL
    CHARLOTTE WOOD
    THE NEW NOVEL BY THE STELLA PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WEEKEND AND THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS A book of the year for the Sydney Morning Herald and ABC A fearless exploration of forgiveness, grief and the complicated beauty of female friendship 'A beautiful, mature work that does not flinch from life' SUNDAY TIMES 'Both profound and addictively entertaining. I loved it' CLARE...
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  • THE ANNALS OF IMPERIAL ROME
    THE ANNALS OF IMPERIAL ROME
    CORNELIUS TACITUS / PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS / TACITUS
    His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome recount with depth and insight the history of the Roman Empire during the first century A.D. This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant. Tacitus' Annals of Imperial Rome recount the major historical events from the years s...
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  • TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE
    TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE
    F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
    A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald's name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces - the most notable of which is the novella-length ‘May Day' - with more fanciful creations, such as the fantastical ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', recently made into a Hollywood film. Also containing the now classic story ‘The Diamond as Big as the Ritz'...
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  • THE 156-STOREY TREEHOUSE
    THE 156-STOREY TREEHOUSE
    ANDY GRIFFITHS
    Merry Christmas from the treehouse! The 156-Storey Treehouse is the twelfth book of Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic comic book-style illustrations. This hardback edition is a perfect stocking filler! The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' - Tom Fletcher, auth...
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  • ON PURPOSE
    ON PURPOSE
    BEN HUTCHINSON
    Ten essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives. How do we live fully? How do we live successfully? Adrift in an anchorless world, we often worry about where we are heading. What meaning can we hope to find in our modern, secular life? The answer, Ben Hutchinson explains, can be found by looking to writers and...
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  • THE LANTERN OF LOST MEMORIES
    THE LANTERN OF LOST MEMORIES
    SANAKA HIIRAGI
    Sanaka Hiiragi's The Lantern of Lost Memories is a healing, uplifting Japanese novel about family, love, loss and humanity, and what life is really about. One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back . . . Imagine waking up in a cosy photo studio in the mountains, between this world and the next. A kind man hands you a hot drink and a stack of photographs, one ...
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  • SHOE DOG
    SHOE DOG
    PHIL KNIGHT
    In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed 50 from his father and created a company with a simple mi...
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  • THE BORGIAS
    THE BORGIAS
    CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT
    The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, better known to history as Pope Alexander VI, was the central figure of the dynasty. Two of his seven papal offspring also rose to power and fame - Lucrezia Borgia, his daughter, whose husband was famously murdered by her brother, a...
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  • I BELONG HERE
    I BELONG HERE
    ANITA SETHI
    The Bookseller's Book of the MonthA Guardian 2021 Literary Highlight"I knew in every bone of my body, in every fibre of my being, that I had to report what had happened, not only for myself but to help stop anyone else having to go through what I did. I knew I could not remain silent, or still, I could not stop walking through the world."A journey of reclamation through the nat...
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  • HOW THE BRAIN LOST ITS MIND
    HOW THE BRAIN LOST ITS MIND
    ALLAN ROPPER / BRIAN BURRELL
    In 1882, Jean-Martin Charcot was the premiere physician in Paris, having just established a neurology clinic at the infamous Salpetriere Hospital, a place that was called a 'grand asylum of human misery'. Assessing the dismal conditions, he quickly upgraded the facilities and in doing so, revolutionized the treatment of mental illness. Many of Charcot's patients had neurosyphil...
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  • A CIVIL CONTRACT
    A CIVIL CONTRACT
    GEORGETTE HEYER
    If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS_____________ Adam Deveril returns from the Peninsula War a hero, only to fi...
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  • PEINTURE ESPAGNOLE
    PEINTURE ESPAGNOLE
    EMMA HANSEN / RUTH DANGELMAIER
    From the lavish abundance of the late Baroque court and epoch-making painters like Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and Francisco de Goya, to the appearance of Romanticism and Classicism in the age of the art academies, and the innovative and sometimes scandalous achievements of modernism, Spanish painting offers an extraordinary panorama of outstanding artists, styles, and themes. Wi...
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  • I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
    I CAPTURE THE CASTLE
    DODIE SMITH
    "I write this sitting in the kitchen sink..." This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home. Cassandra's father was once a famous writer, but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty. Her sister Rose is bored and beautiful, and desperate to marry riches. Their step-mother ...
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  • I AM TRAITOR
    I AM TRAITOR
    SIF SIGMARSDÓTTIR
    At the end of the world, who can you trust? The story of one teen's fight against an extra-terrestrial invasion. For fans of Michael Grant, Suzanne Collins and Robert Muchamore. London has been targeted by extra-terrestrial life and victims are transported to a terrifying other world. Amy Sullivan is an unwilling hero. She runs until she can't run any more. Then, she is taken...
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  • THE DIVIDED SELF
    THE DIVIDED SELF
    R. LAING
    His groundbreaking exploration of the nature of madness, R.D. Laing's The Divided Self illuminated the nature mental illness, making the mysteries of the mind comprehensible to a lay audience. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Professor Anthony S. David. First published in 1960, this watershed work aimed to make madness comprehensible, and in doin...
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  • SORROW AND BLISS
    SORROW AND BLISS
    MEG MASON
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  • ALIVE
    ALIVE
    PIERS PAUL READ
    LOST 1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on earth. ABANDONED Almost three months later, two of the survivors, emaciated and frozen, reach the authorities and lead a rescue team to the remaining fourteen passengers. ALIVE The rescue team are shocked when they reach the crash-site. Food supplies h...
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  • THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK
    THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    The stories in this collection from Orange-Prize winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie straddle the cultures of Nigeria and the West. Her characters battle with the responsibilities of modern life, a world in which identity is too often compromised. ...
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  • THE FLATSHARE
    THE FLATSHARE
    BETH O'LEARY
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  • KINGMAKER
    KINGMAKER
    SONIA PURNELL
    An electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century's greatest unsung power playersWhen Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and many downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic adventures overshadowed her true legacy. Much of what she did behind the scenes to shape 20th c...
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  • WILLOUGHBYLAND
    WILLOUGHBYLAND
    MATTHEW PARKER
    At the beginning of the 1650s, England was in ruins - wrecked by plague and civil war. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise: Willoughbyland. Ever since Sir Walter Ralegh set out in 1595 to claim the 'Beautiful Empire of Guiana' for the English crown - and to find the legendary city of El Dorado - adventurers had struggled against the fierce jungle of the Wild ...
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  • BABIES
    BABIES
    ANNE ENRIGHT
    Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the long reaches of the night. Everyone, from parents to the mildly curious, can ...
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  • HOME FIRE
    HOME FIRE
    KAMILA SHAMSIE
    _______________ WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMES _______________ 'The book for our times' - Judges of the Women's Prize 'Elegant and evocative ... A powerful exploration of the clash between society, family and faith in the m...
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  • TWISTED SERIES 4-BOOK BOXED SET
    TWISTED SERIES 4-BOOK BOXED SET
    ANA HUANG
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    51,25 €

  • THE TANGLEROOT PALACE
    THE TANGLEROOT PALACE
    MARJORIE LIU
    New York Times bestseller and Hugo, British Fantasy, Romantic Times, and Eisner award-winning author of the graphic novel Monstress, Marjorie Liu leads you deep into the heart of the tangled woods. In her long-awaited debut collection of dark, lush, and spellbinding short fiction, you will find unexpected detours, dangerous magic, and even more dangerous women. Briar, bodyguar...
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  • RHYTHM, CHORD & MALYKHIN
    RHYTHM, CHORD & MALYKHIN
    MARIANA ZAPATA
    If you loved From Lukov with Love - the sensational TikTok hit that is captivating readers all over the world - then you don't want to miss any of Mariana's unique romances! No one writes slow burn like Mariana Zapata and her millions of fans agree! 'Gosh I love this author's novels. She does the slow burn romances perfectly - keeping me hooked and intrigued due to amazing cha...
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  • CAUTERY
    CAUTERY
    LUCÍA LIJTMAER
    Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman trapped in a slowly curdling relationship. From the outside it all looks good--the casually elegant apartment, the cocktail parties, the impressive, creative friends--but for all her supposed freedom, her unhappiness means she's not living up to her side of the bargain...
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    14,99 €

  • ASTERIX IN BRITAIN
    ASTERIX IN BRITAIN
    RENÉ GOSCINNY / ALBERT UDERZO
    One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedicus Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink. It's not quite cricket - how abo...
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  • ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: THE BORDER TRILOGY 1
    ALL THE PRETTY HORSES: THE BORDER TRILOGY 1
    CORMAC MCCARTHY
    John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilized; a place where dreams are paid for in blood. ...
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  • SELECTED POEMS
    SELECTED POEMS
    FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
    'Lorca brought an understanding of the paradox that was Spain - sensuality chafing under a rigid moral code, individual desire at war with tradition.' Manuel Duran Federico García Lorca is perhaps the most celebrated of all twentieth-century Spanish writers, known not only for his plays but also for several collections of poems published both in his short lifetime and after. Lo...
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